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Well, there is also the issue that Watson isn't an actual product. They used the jeopardy game to get brand recognition, but the customers don't get that. They
by 7thaccount 3y ago
Well, there is also the issue that Watson isn't an actual product. They used the jeopardy game to get brand recognition, but the customers don't get that. They get a team of contractors to hobble together whatever open source software or IBM products are out there to build you a super expensive "AI" product with what seems like a significant rate of failure (conjecture based on internet comments over numerous failures). So there was never anything for the public to interact with in the same manner as they can with ChatGPT.
- tekchip 3y agoThis is dead on. IBM pulls publicity stunts, often achieved by brute force. Then, it uses that marketing to sell contracts to customers whom they promise the world then, typically, fail to deliver on. Or as noted deliver on in the most basic way often by contractors and/or fellows (fancy word for contractors). But the money is paid, and the contract signed, so IBM got theirs. Rins repeat. Pretty easy to look back and see their amazing "innovation" every 5-10 years, which never results in any lasting product. In the in-between time, they farm employee IP via contracts taking all past and future rights, and profit on that IP ownership for no ones benefit but the IBM management. Disgusting company. Pour one out for Redhat.